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    This is too fucking funny. I think he's being opaque.



    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign said on Thursday it was withdrawing its lawsuit disputing vote results in Michigan, in another faltering legal attempt to challenge the Nov. 3 victory of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.
    This morning we are withdrawing our lawsuit in Michigan as a direct result of achieving the relief we sought: to stop the election in Wayne County from being prematurely certified before residents can be assured that every legal vote has been counted and every illegal vote has not been counted,” Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in a statement.
    Trump campaign drops Michigan lawsuit: statement | Reuters

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    Georgia recount is almost complete


    Officials say the wait is almost over.

    Gabriel Sterling, the official in charge of implementing Georgia's voting systems, told Fox News the state's audit and recount were nearly complete and on track to verify a Joe Biden win in that state.

    Sterling called accusations of voter irregularities "wild mischaracterisations", but added:

    "The good part was: the audit did its job.

    "The recount is going great."
    He said the recount has found a small batch of uncounted votes that were being tallied this morning (US time).

    Here
    Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago ...


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    Rudy Giuliani has delivered another press conference


    Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has been at the centre of the campaign's slew of election lawsuits.

    He spoke to reporters a couple of hours ago and told them there was a "centralised" plan to commit voter fraud, but refused to reveal any evidence to back up such claims.

    Giuliani said the Trump campaign had a plan to "overturn the election" in Nevada, Virginia, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona.

    He spent most of the press conference repeating claims of election fraud.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    Rudy Giuliani
    He represents Trump perfectly. Very alike.

    What a farce

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    ^^ Rudy at the press conference today.

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    ^He should just stay home.

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    He does look like Robert Duval's retarded twin brother.

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    Rudy Melts Down Over Trump and ‘Voter Fraud’ During Insane Press Conference
    By Ed Kilgore

    Rudy gets heated, literally. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
    When the Trump campaign announced a noon press conference today, there was some speculation that it might signal an end to the president’s doomed effort to challenge his election defeat. That might have seemed rational, since Team Trump and its subordinate allies have again and again struck out in court, all over the country, in efforts to even raise the remote possibility there was enough “fraud” to change the outcome. And with state certifications of the results on the very near horizon, there’s no question Republicans were privately whispering to the president and his staff that it was time to end the circus and move along.

    Lord have mercy, was the end-is-coming speculation wrong! In an interminable press conference, Trump’s legal team upped the ante by about a million percent, alleging a massive national conspiracy personally directed by Joe Biden, but bankrolled by “communist money,” to steal an election that “the president clearly won by a landslide,” as Trump attorney Sidney Powell said at one point. Chief lawyer Rudy Giuliani became more and more agitated as the strange event went on, spending most of his time attacking reporters from the “fake media” in the room and symbolizing the heat of his words when his hair-dye melted, leaving brown streaks down each side of his face.



    Recounting this 100-minute cascade of madness is more than I can bear. But the basic idea laid out by Trump’s lawyers is that they have come across vast evidence of systematic voter fraud in “Democrat” cities (though the claims go far beyond such jurisdictions) that they can’t present publicly now, but are demanding that courts address immediately after the campaign files a battery of lawsuits tomorrow. Again and again, Giuliani shrieked at the “censored” media for failing to cover “evidence” that he then said the campaign couldn’t disclose either because (a) the witnesses to the immense Biden conspiracy were in fear of their lives, or (b) it was being held for review by the courts. At several points, Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis angrily told reporters that the case they were making at the presser was just an “overview” or an “opening statement,” with all the facts and figures they asked for not being appropriate at this stage of the proceedings.

    But the longer the presser went on, the more it became clear that the Trump campaign was relying not so much on affidavits of misconduct or statistical demonstrations of altered results but rather the broadest sorts of conspiracy theories, most of them inherently absurd or previously exploded. Giuliani repeatedly spoke of mail ballots as though they are some sort of sinister new invention rather than a method of voting that has been available in one form or another in every state for years. He also with a straight face argued that the reversal of early Trump leads in many states as mail ballots were counted was prima facie evidence of fraud, rather than a reflection of his own client’s loud, constant, and successful efforts to convince Republicans not to vote by mail.

    In other words, having failed to supply evidence of wrongdoing sufficient to change the results in individual states, Team Trump has headed into the murky and dangerous territory of declaring the entire election illegitimate, from sea to shining sea.


    This became plain when Sidney Powell took the presser far down the rabbit hole into discredited claims that voting machines designed in Venezuela had systematically miscounted the vote in order to throw the election to Biden. Weeping actual tears, Powell spoke darkly of “communist money” and veered off into murky claims from years far past. I wasn’t the only one who struggled to follow her: “Even by the standards of the Trump legal team, Sidney Powell is making no sense right now. You have to be just mainlining The Donald - America First and Gateway Pundit to have any idea what she’s referencing,” observed the Daily Beast’s Will Sommer.

    Other than lashing the media for failing to “cover” its incoherent theories and alerting the president’s supporters that the fight was by no means winding down, what was the point of the presser? It appears that the lawsuits Giuliani threatened will seek to get judges to stop state certification of results. Since they will probably not gain any more traction than earlier campaign or GOP efforts to slow down the process, the real goal was probably indicated by Ellis and Powell, both of whom mentioned “constitutional provisions” for “fixing” a rigged election. By that I am assuming they meant the questionable theory that state legislatures can put aside “disputed” results and just appoint electors on their own.

    It’s no coincidence that the legislatures of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are controlled by Trump’s GOP. And worried observers have long feared Trump had in mind exactly this sort of end-run of the results if he lost. Based on the overall impression left by Trump’s team after this stunning event, it’s reasonably clear the strategy is to get the MAGA masses to press Republican legislators in the key states to steal the 2020 election on grounds that it was earlier stolen by Democrats.


    I’ve been watching political developments closely for a half-century, and have witnessed all sorts of craziness. But the spectacle of the president’s lawyers menacing reporters (“You’re lying! You’re lying! You’re lying!” Giuliani screamed at one reporter trying to ask a question, after asking her “What fake media do you work for?”) trying to unravel their wild claims was something out of a bad alternative history where the bad guys won World War II. At one point, Powell said: “This is the 1775 of our generation and beyond!” Are these people threatening violent revolution if they don’t get their way? Normally I’d say, “Of course not!” But for the first time, I’m really not sure.

    This comment from the recently fired Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security, Christopher Krebs, sums it all up:


    Chris Krebs
    @C_C_Krebs
    That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re lucky.
    4:27 AM · Nov 20, 2020


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    These people are fucking nuts.


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    The only fraud being committed is the actions of the trump the crime syndicate. I hope the menace and his clan try to stay in the WH after Jan. 20, when they can then be charged with and convicted of insurrection and face what they deserve, the death penalty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    Brilliant?
    Yeah, nah.

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    After first votong NOT to certify and being met with howls of outrage they changed their mind and voted yes.
    Now, after getting a call from Trump they want to rescing those vates and vote NOT to certify,
    Asshole these republicans.



    GOP members of Wayne County Board of Canvassers say they want to rescind votes to certify
    Wayne County's GOP canvassers want to rescind votes to certify
    “If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.

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    Georgia recount is complete, Biden reaffirmed as winner

    The recount in Georgia has finally been completed, and the results affirm Joe Biden's narrow lead over Donald Trump.

    As many of you have pointed out, they were supposed to finish the hand count by 11:59pm on Wednesday, so 4:00pm AEDT , here in Australia. They were counting about 5 million votes, by hand.


    This was an audit required by state law because the result was so close, not in response to any suspected problems with the state’s results or an official recount request.
    The official results have just been posted on the Georgia Secretary of State's website.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    These people are fucking nuts.
    Communist money from Venezuela, Cuba and China . . . this is such an utter embarrassment for the US . . . but the sinister side is they are convincing tens of millions of halfwits that they've been wronged on a massive scale.
    These halfwits are generally too stupid and/or scared to actually do something but it just takes a few thousand out of these tens of millions . . . no different to the Muslim extremist nutjobs who kill and maim . . . though they actually have a real enemy

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    Furthermore, I doubt two successful mestizo tech entrepreneurs from Venezuela are Chavista at all. Not exactly their core electoral demographic.

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    So much winning!

    President Donald Trump and his allies lost three court rulings on Thursday in their effort to stop President-elect Joe Biden from taking office, underscoring their dwindling options even as they continued to claim a viable path to victory.

    In Georgia, a judge appointed by Trump denied a request by Lin Wood, a conservative lawyer, to halt certification of Biden’s victory in the state. The lawsuit alleged Georgia election officials improperly changed the process for handling absentee ballots.

    “To halt the certification at literally the eleventh hour would breed confusion and disenfranchisement that I find have no basis in fact and law,” said U.S. District Judge Steven Grimberg in Atlanta during a court hearing.

    Trump’s legal advisers, led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, made unsubstantiated voter fraud claims and laid out what they said was a path to victory on Thursday during a fiery press conference in Washington.


    Trump’s strategy for retaining power is focused increasingly on persuading Republican legislators to intervene on his behalf in battleground states Biden won, three people familiar with the effort told Reuters.


    Shortly after the press conference, a judge in Pennsylvania rejected the Trump campaign’s bid to invalidate about 2,200 ballots in Bucks County, near Philadelphia, over purported defects such as missing “secrecy envelopes.”

    The judge noted that the Trump campaign had stipulated that there was “no evidence of any fraud, misconduct, or any impropriety with respect to the challenged ballots.”


    Wood and a Trump campaign spokeswoman, Thea McDonald, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    In Arizona, a state court judge tossed a Republican-backed lawsuit seeking to halt Phoenix officials from certifying Biden as the winner.

    The Arizona Republican Party had asked Judge John Hannah to order a new audit of ballots in Maricopa County, where the majority of Arizonans live, arguing it had been conducted in a manner that violated state law.

    The judge did not explain why he was denying the request but said he would issue a lengthier decision soon.


    The Arizona Republican Party said in a statement that it had sought “judicial clarification” of a law relating to determining a sample for a post-election audit of ballots. The statement said the dispute should be clarified through future legislation.
    Judges rule against Trump and allies in three U.S. election lawsuits | Reuters

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    Sometimes it's hard to fathom how stupid they actually are.

    "Headlines are already falsely reporting that Joe Biden is declared the winner in Georgia. Sorry, media, that's not how it works. The State of Georgia has not certified its results, and it should not. This so-called hand recount went exactly as we expected because Georgia simply recounted all of the illegal ballots that had been included in the total. We continue to demand that Georgia conduct an honest recount, which includes signature matching. We intend to pursue all legal options to ensure that only legal ballots are counted."
    - Jenna Ellis, Trump Campaign Senior Legal Advisor

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    Meanwhile, you're doomed when even Tucker has turned against you.



    Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell refused to provide his show evidence backing up her “bombshell” claim that electronic voting machines stole millions of votes from President Donald Trump.

    “We took Sidney Powell seriously. We had no intention of fighting with her,” Carlson said Thursday. “We simply wanted to see the details. How could you not? So we invited her on the show. We would have given her the whole hour. We would have given her the whole week, actually, and listened patiently the whole time. It’s that big a story.”

    “But she never sent any evidence. Not a page,” Carlson said. “When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her. When we checked with others around the Trump campaign, people in positions of authority, they told us Powell has never given them any evidence either. Nor did she provide any today at the press conference.”
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    Two Republican senators have criticised President Donald Trump


    They've also had a go at his team for their efforts to pressure state and local election officials to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victories in several closely contested states.

    Utah Senator Mitt Romney, one of Trump's most vocal GOP critics, tweeted on Thursday:

    "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President."

    Mr Romney accused Mr Trump on resorting to "overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election".

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    Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse went after Mr Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who held a press conference on Thursday presenting a list of far-fetched, thoroughly debunked claims on the 2020 election.

    Mr Sasse tweeted: "Rudy and his buddies should not pressure electors to ignore their certification obligations under the statute. We are a nation of laws, not tweets."

    Here

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    Mr Romney accused Mr Trump on resorting to "overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election".
    Did he care much about the will of the people when voting for SCOTUS nominees?

    No.

    C u n t.

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    Best yet to come when Pence formally declares Biden the winner come 6 Jan.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    These people are fucking nuts.
    the comments on that youtube vid are weird

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    ^^ . Come Fly With Me Rudy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Best yet to come when Pence formally declares Biden the winner come 6 Jan.
    What happens if he refuses to?

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